Wednesday, December 26, 2007

What Was That Weird Fantasy Movie

I had a vague memory of a fantasy movie I watched on cable as a child. Not knowing what it was had been bugging me for a few years now. I did remember that it was a low budget production, probably made for TV. I just couldn’t remember the name of the film, or any of the actors. All I had to go on was: one, it had an elf that could shoot superhumanly fast; two, there was a character with an automatic crossbow; and three, the main hero had a magic sword that could float back to his hand. Seems like not much to go on right? Well, in this day and age of the net, I just knew there was info online someplace, but what was the name of the film? It was even easier than I thought to discover it as I found the title in two searches on Google. The winning search yielded the answer by including: fantasy film and 1980s. …And the movie is?

It looks pretty cheesy, but at least I can stop wondering “what was that weird fantasy movie.”

I love this user comment from IMDB:

Everything about it is terrible and yet something about it is great!

It has the feel of a Saturday "matinee" and is certainly an entertaining piece of work (although far from a masterpiece). Essentially, this movie is a guilty pleasure. If had to choose between it or "The Beastmaster", I would certainly take Hawk the Slayer.

Plus, it has Jack Palance as the villain so you know it has to be entertaining on some level right?